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  • Bowling league, May 19 tourney winners announced

    Fifteen bowlers recorded the top scores at the Tinker Bowling Center during the 2011-2012 league season, and three others had the highest scores in a tournament last Saturday, General Manager Brett Moler announced recently.The top honor scores recorded in any single game during the 32-week season

  • Welsh nominated as next CSAF

    WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced May 10 that the president has nominated Gen. Mark A. Welsh III to be the next chief of staff of the Air Force, succeeding Gen. Norton Schwartz, who has served in the position since August 2008."I'm tremendously honored and deeply

  • Small units have big responsibility

    It's a matter of orchestrating chaos. When Air Force personnel or cargo arrive or depart from Tinker, it's up to two small units, of less than a dozen active-duty members in each office, to make sense of it all. The 72nd Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Terminal Operations, 72nd ABW Installation

  • BASH program works to keep critters, aircraft apart

    A common refrain heard at Tinker is that birds and aircraft don't mix.Keeping the two separated can be quite a challenge, for at least two reasons, John Krupovage, Natural Resources manager in the 72nd Air Base Wing Civil Engineering Directorate, related. First, Oklahoma lies in a corridor traveled

  • ‘Pink slime’ products to be permanently removed from commissary shelves

    In recent weeks, "pink slime" oozed from the headlines. Despite ground beef shoppers' worries, commissary officials assure Tinker customers that the lean finely trimmed beef antibacterial process has been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration

  • Tinker’s Weiss family named May’s ‘Fit Family’

    The family of Lt. Col. Geoffrey Weiss, commander of the 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron at Tinker AFB, has been picked as the USAF "Fit Family of the Month" for May - which, coincidentally, is Fitness Month in the Air Force."We enrolled in the FitFamily program three or four years ago," the

  • Teams vie for championship in flag football

    The 72nd Medical Group eked out a one-point victory Monday over Reserve Gold, which was within three yards and one more play of winning the flag football playoff game despite a severely diminished roster.The Medics led at the half, 14-7, and although they were held scoreless in the second half, Gold

  • Storage solution: New equipment saves space, energy

    The 72nd Air Base Wing Communications Directorate has acquired new computer equipment that occupies one-fourth as much space, uses 29 percent less energy and provides as much data storage capacity as the equipment it replaced."Our old equipment had a huge physical footprint, took a lot of power to